Excellent
condition inside and out, very original vehicle save for the twin-turbo
kit (looks factory installed), serviced & well cared
for, no accidents or evidence of previous body damage, both factory
options incl the desirable manual trans., low original mileage, a lot
of rarity and
performance for the money!

Warranty:

Available

Keys-Remotes:

3 keys - remotes n/a

Books-Manuals:

Yes

Price:

$39,900.00
/ best offer

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RHB5 turbos, a new throttle body and exhaust manifolds and mufflers, and a list of other parts breathed new life into

the underpowered factory Peugeot-Renault-Volvo sourced 2.85L V6. The kit is exceptionally well made and is inte-

grated so well into the engine bay it could easily have been factory designed and installed. This DeLorean just received

a complete inspection and service at a cost of over $6,000.00., incl. flush of all fluids and change of all filters, fuel pump

relay, complete brake system refurbishment incl. new master cylinder and brake lines, new calipers, new pads and

machined rotors. The updated stainless steel coolant reservoir was installed, as well a new water pump and all gaskets

for the intake manifold. A fuel system treatment was added to clean injectors, valves, throttle body and intake manifold.

New hood and passenger door struts were also installed at this time. It runs and drives very well and the body and interior

are in excellent condition, with no signs of accident damage or repair. The DMC-12 was only available with two factory

options; a no-cost manual transmission and the choice of a grey or black interior. This example also has some dealer

installed options, including floor mats and black textured door accent
stripes. It is rare to find an example in this condition

and with the low original mileage - not to mention the increase in performance from the very rare twin-turbo system.

During the last few years DeLoreans have experienced a bottoming out of values and now are on the rise as investment

grade collectibles!

Ownership history:Purchased by Thomas Wilkin DVM 10/22/1991 with 35,591 miles (his practice is still open in Ohio and I am trying to reach him)Owned by PO Dr. Sloan since 06/20/1998 with 36,000 milesRegistered every year with the last issued 10/17/2016Dr. Sloan passed away in early 2017, when BMI acquired the vehicle

Needs:windows are currently not working but new window switches are on order from DMC in TX.
A/C is not functioning - needs converted to R134 and charged
Fuel gauge is inop - needs a sending unit
Tires - has Remington TX-120 tires front and Firestone FireHawk SS rear (195/60-14f & 235/60-15r) with Tread Depth
Measurements: DF: 7/32, PF: 7/32, DR: 7/32, PR: 7/32 (10/32 is new tire tread depth) that should be replaced from age.

The
DeLorean DMC-12 was a sports car manufactured by John DeLorean's
DeLorean Motor Company for the American market from 1981-1983.
The first prototype appeared in October 1976. Production officially
began in 1981 in Dunmurry, a suburb of southwest Belfast, Northern
Ireland, where the first DMC-12 rolled off the production line on
January 21. The car features gull-wing doors and an innovative
fiberglass / glass reinforced plastic (GRP) underbody structure with a
Lotus designed steel backbone chassis, with external brushed stainless
steel body panels overtop. The gullwing doors, when opening, only
require 11 inches clearance outside the line of the car, making opening
and closing the doors in crowded spaces relatively easy. Under
the rear hood is a 2.85L V-6 engine designed and built by
Peugeot-Renault-Volvo under a special contract with the DeLorean Motor
Company. Cloaking those mechanicals was a crisp body penned by
Italian stylist Giorgetto Giugiaro that retained the flair of the
DMC-12 prototype. The real talking point was the DeLorean’s
rustproof stainless steel bodywork, which covered a fiberglass inner
structure. Over the course of production, several features of the
car were changed, such as the hood style, wheels and interior. About
9,000 DMC-12s were made before production halted in early 1983.
As of 2007, about 6,500 DeLorean Motor cars were believed still to
exist.

On
October 1976, the first prototype DeLorean DMC-12 was completed by
American automotive chief engineer William T. Collins, formerly chief
engineer at Pontiac. Originally, the car was intended to have a
centrally-mounted Wankel rotary engine. The engine selection was
reconsidered when Comotor production ended, and the favored engine
became Ford's "Cologne V6." Eventually the French/Swedish PRV
(Peugeot-Renault-Volvo) fuel injected V6 was selected. Also the
engine location moved from the mid-engined location in the prototype to
a rear-engined installation in the production car. The chassis
was initially planned to be produced from a new and untested
manufacturing technology known as elastic reservoir moulding (ERM),
which would lighten the car while presumably lowering its production
costs. This new technology, for which DeLorean had purchased
patent rights, was eventually found to be unsuitable. These and
other changes to the original concept led to considerable schedule
pressures. The entire car was deemed to require almost complete
re-engineering, which was turned over to engineer Colin Chapman,
founder and owner of Lotus Cars. Chapman replaced most of the unproven
material and manufacturing techniques with those then employed by
Lotus, like the steel backbone chassis.

The
body design of the DMC-12 was a product of Giorgetto Giugiaro of Ital
Design and is paneled in brushed SS304 stainless steel. Except
for three cars plated in 24-carat gold, all DMC-12s left the factory
uncovered by paint or clearcoat. Painted DeLoreans do exist,
although these were all painted after the cars were purchased from the
factory. Several hundred DMCs were produced without stainless
panels, for training workers, and are referred to as "black cars" or
"mules", in reference to their black fiberglass panels instead of
stainless, though these were never marketed. Small scratches in
the stainless steel body panels can be removed with a non-metallic
scouring pad (since metal pads can leave iron particles embedded in the
stainless steel which can give the appearance of the stainless
"rusting"), or even sandpaper. The stainless steel panels are
fixed to a fiberglass underbody. The underbody is affixed to a
steel double-Y frame chassis, derived from the Lotus Esprit platform.

The
unpainted stainless body creates challenges during restoration of the
cars. In traditional automotive body repair, the panel is repaired to
be as original ("straight") as possible and imperfections are sculpted
back to form with body filler like Bondo or lead (body solder). This
poses no problem (aside from originality) with most cars, as the filler
will be hidden by the car's paint (for example, most new cars have
filler hiding the seam where the roof meets the quarter panel). With an
unpainted stainless body, the stainless steel must be reworked to
exactly the original shape, contour, and grain—which is a tremendously
difficult job on regular steel (a dented or bent panel is stretched and
a shrinking hammer or other techniques must be used to unstretch the
metal) and even more difficult with stainless due to its tendency to
work-harden. Furthermore, it is exceedingly difficult to paint
stainless steel due to difficulties with paint adhesion. DeLorean
envisioned that damaged panels would simply be replaced rather than
repaired; each DeLorean service center today has at least one
experienced body repair person on staff, and there are decades worth of
new stainless panels still available in most instances.

Another
unusual feature of the DMC-12 is its gull-wing doors. The common
problem of supporting the weight of gull-wing doors was solved by other
manufacturers with lightweight doors in the Mercedes-Benz 300SL and a
hydraulic pump in the Bricklin SV-1, although these designs had
structural or convenience disadvantages. The DMC-12 features
heavy doors supported by cryogenically preset torsion bars and
gas-charged struts. These torsion bars were developed by Grumman
Aerospace (and built by Unbrako in the UK, a division of SPS
Technologies of Jenkintown, PA) to withstand the stresses of supporting
the doors. A popular misconception of the DMC-12's gull-wing
doors is that they require far more side clearance to open relative to
ordinary side-hinge doors, such as when parked in a parking lot.
In fact, the opposite is true: the DMC-12 requires far less clearance
than side-hinge doors, and this can be physically demonstrated.
This misconception of side clearance may stem from a misunderstood
location of the hinge point of the doors by persons unfamiliar with
DMC-12s. These doors, when opening, only require 11 inches (28
cm) clearance outside the line of the car, making opening and closing
the doors in crowded spaces relatively easy. Much like the doors
fitted to the Lamborghini Countach, the DMC-12 doors featured small
cutout windows, because full-sized windows would not be fully
retractable within the short door panels. Additionally, the doors
featured red and amber "safety" lights around the perimeter. These
lights illuminated when the door was open and could be seen from the
front, rear or side of the vehicle at night or low light situations.

The
engine is a Peugeot-Renault-Volvo (PRV) 2.85 litre V6, which produced
about 130 hp, that was designed and built under special contract with
the DMC Company. These PRV engines were a development of the 2.7 litre
V6 in the Renault 30, and were built in the PRV Factory in Douvrin,
Northern France. The gearbox, also designed by PRV, was built at
the Renault facility near Caen in Normandy. The engines and
gearboxes were shipped weekly by sea from the PRV Factories to the DMC
Factory.

The
suspension of the DMC-12 is a four-wheel independent suspension, coil
springs, and telescopic shock absorbers. The front suspension
uses double wishbones, while the rear is a multi-link setup. In
its original development stages, the car is said to have handled quite
well. Design drawings clearly show that the design met NHTSA
minimum bumper and headlight heights of the time. Many owners
have subsequently replaced or modified the front springs to return the
front height to the original design specification.

Steering
is rack and pinion, with an overall steering ratio of 14.9:1, giving
2.65 turns lock-to-lock and a 35-foot (11 m) turning circle. DMC-12s
are fitted with cast alloy wheels, measuring 14 inches (360 mm) in
diameter by 6 inches (150 mm) wide on the front and 15 inches (380 mm)
in diameter by 8 inches (200 mm) wide on the rear. These were
fitted with Goodyear NCT steel-belted radial tires. Because the
DeLorean is a rear engine vehicle, the DMC-12 has a 35%–65% front–rear
weight distribution. The DMC-12 features power-assisted disc
brakes on all wheels, with 10-inch (250 mm) rotors front and 10.5-inch
(270 mm) rear.

Picks: This example of the DeLorean DMC-12 is in extremely nice condition inside and out, there is no evidence of

previous body or chassis repair, and the SS body really has no mentionable flaws, the interior also has very little

wear and nothing that is out of the ordinary for a driven car. The interior carpet, leather, and seats / panels are all

very nice with just a little color wear on the seats and a slight gap under the glovebox lid. The glass is all original

and in excellent condition, front and rear tires have good tread but probably should be replaced from age. The rims

have no curb rash and have a very nice original finish. The engine compartment is very clean and the car drives

great, revs freely, shifts well and sounds just as good. It starts quickly everytime and does not hunt at idle like most

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